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As a part of a major breakthrough in medical transplants and bio-fuel cell technology, University of Georgia (UGA) Professor Jason Locklin and graduate students Nicholas Marshall and Kyle Sontag have developed tiny brushes to power pacemakers,...
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A Pennsylvania man has been accused of burglarizing at least three apartments and vandalizing them with spray paint and chocolate pudding _ after police say he was...
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The head of a Philadelphia museum says its sample of Abraham Lincoln’s blood may get DNA testing, but some questions must be answered first.
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Rihanna is back _ on the red carpet, at least.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will provide Congress with a fresh assessment of the country’s fragile economic health that probably will note some recent...
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Online retailers are shifting their marketing from traditional advertising to less expensive tools like Facebook.com and Twitter and e-mail as they seek market share or...
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One of the nation’s largest July Fourth fireworks shows will be held on the Hudson River this year to celebrate the 400th anniversary of English explorer Henry...
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City councilors just outside Boston say police should be better prepared for large crowds descending on a local beach after thousands of students skipped school and...
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A deputy assistant secretary of the Navy under President Bill Clinton has been sentenced in San Diego to more than three years in federal prison for possessing child...
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The owner of the ultra-exclusive Yellowstone Club says she opposed a $375 million loan blamed for the resort’s financial collapse, but never tried to stop the...
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Dan Barber, a pioneer of the so-called farm-to-table restaurant movement, was named the nation’s top chef Monday by the James Beard Foundation.
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A woman is under house arrest for falsely reporting that a man she was stalking was going to hijack a plane in Los Angeles _ a lie authorities say nearly prevented him...
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The first U.S. double hand transplant is taking place at a Pittsburgh hospital.
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Israel’s prime minister on Monday outlined a “triple track” approach to peace with the Palestinians, a strategy that emphasizes political, economic...
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In a tearful interview with Oprah Winfrey that aired Monday, the parents of a British girl who disappeared two years ago from a Portuguese resort asked their...
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Two teenagers have denied in court they planned to bring guns to their California high school and randomly shoot fellow students.
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Federal officials say a civilian project engineer has been charged with squeezing an Army Corps of Engineers contractor for a bribe in connection with a $2.5 million...
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Voters head to the polls Tuesday to select their mayor for the next 7 1/2 months in a runoff election seen as key to restoring stability to Detroit amid a bleak fiscal...
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The Supreme Court says Shell Oil Co. cannot be held responsible for cleanup of a contaminated Superfund site owned by a defunct company simply because it delivered...
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Union workers at The New York Times will accept a 5 percent pay cut through the end of the year to help the newspaper avert more layoffs.
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A massive contract to support U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan received a withering review Monday, as a special panel investigating waste and fraud in wartime...
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We are running faster in the bionic race now than we did a year back. But because the inceptions are paving new hopes and dimensions for the differently abled, I in...
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AP, Pittsburgh
The first U.S. double hand transplant is taking place at a Pittsburgh hospital.
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AP, New York
A New York City firefighter who believes he got sick from working at ground zero has left the hospital with a new lung.
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The wife of a Massachusetts man whose tissue was donated for the nation’s second face transplant says her husband told her before heart transplant surgery that he...
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Former Washington Mayor Marion Barry has been released from Howard University Hospital after returning as a precaution following his kidney transplant.
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Former Washington Mayor Marion Barry has returned to Howard University Hospital after complications from his recent kidney transplant.
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Former Washington Mayor Marion Barry has been released from the hospital after successfully undergoing a kidney transplant.
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Doctors say former Washington mayor Marion Barry could be released from the hospital by Thursday, after undergoing a kidney transplant.
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D.C. Council member Marion Barry has undergone a kidney transplant at Howard University Hospital.
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Former Washington Mayor Marion Barry, now 72 and beset by health problems as prosecutors are seeking to jail him on accusations of failing to file his 2007 tax returns,...
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Former Washington mayor Marion Barry has been admitted to a hospital to prepare for a kidney transplant.
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Doctors say the woman who received the nation’s first face transplant two months ago has left the hospital in Cleveland.
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Carolina Panthers owner Jerry Richardson was recovering Monday after a heart transplant.
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Carolina Panthers owner Jerry Richardson underwent a heart transplant Sunday, according to a broadcast report.
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The family of a 17-year-old leukemia patient has sued health insurance giant Cigna Corp. for her death in 2007 after the company initially refused to pay for a liver...
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A transplant surgeon who was accused of hastening a comatose man’s death so his organs could be harvested has been acquitted of an abuse charge.
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The Cleveland Clinic says a woman who had suffered severe facial trauma got essentially a whole new face in a first-of-its-kind operation.
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The nation’s first face transplant is a big risk not just for the severely disfigured woman who received it, but also for the surgeon who has made it the...
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The Cleveland Clinic says it has done the nation’s first almost total face transplant.
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In this file photo from June 13, 2007, former Washington Mayor Marion Barry makes a statement to the media in Washington. Barry is undergoing a kidney transplant at Howard University Hospital Friday afternoon, Feb. 20, 2009.
